- SYDNEY - Revellers around
the globe gathered for celebrations Sunday to usher in what purists consider
to be the start of the "real" new millennium.
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- Sydney Harbour
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- Organizers in Sydney beat the rest of the world in holding
one of the biggest New Year's Eve parties. They set off a show of spectacular
fireworks on Sydney Harbour Bridge as Australia also celebrated its centennial.
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- Most Western countries celebrated the new millennium
with exuberant displays of fireworks and musical performances as December,
1999 was ending.
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- But China and Russia, among other countries, regard the
completion rather than the start of the 2,000th year of the Christian
era as the true millennium and are marking it only now.
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- Moscow
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- In Moscow, President Vladimir Putin looked back on his
first year in office by pointing out there were "notable elements
of stability" in Russia.
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- Hong Kong
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- In Hong Kong, organizers put on a high-tech laser show
while in Beijing, students from China, Japan and South Korea toppled hundreds
of thousands of dominoes to produce an image of the Great Wall.
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- New York
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- Last year, an estimated two million people rang in the
new year in New York City's Times Square.
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- For 2001, a smaller crowd of 500,000 was expected to
gaze at the world's largest crystal ball as it drops at the stroke of midnight.
Boxing legend Muhammad Ali will press the button to start the descent.
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